BENGALURU:On the sidelines of Aero India 2021 that concluded last week, India’s Defence Ministry hosted a conclave of defence ministers of countries in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) that saw the participation of over two dozen nations. Among the attendees was Richard Rakotonirina, the Defence Minister of Madagascar. “We consider IOR as a crucial geopolitical area […]Read More
NEW DELHI: China has made “a solid contribution to economic development” in the African continent, but we need to be equally candid about the whole question of debt,” says Dr Witney W. Schneidman, Former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African affairs. He points to one example of Zambia “skipping its ($42.5 million) coupon […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Why is 2019 Nobel peace laureate Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed conducting a ‘war’ on the country’s Tigray region? Theodore Murphy, Director of the Africa programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations, explains the genesis of what PM Abiy describes as a ‘campaign to uphold the rule of law’, the “explosion of […]Read More
PUNE: There are very few modern-day wars that have ended decisively. The shining example of one which did is the 1971 Indo-Pak war for the liberation of Bangladesh. The Azerbaijan and Armenia conflict for the independent region of Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) has now become the second example of a decisive war. Last week, the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “Thank You, Gautam Sawang, you should be part of this celebration since you nurtured me professionally in Liberia,” says United Nations Woman Police Officer of the Year, Assistant Superintendent Doreen Mazuba Malambo. Damodar Gautam Sawang is the current Director General of Police of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh and was Police Commissioner […]Read More
NEW DELHI: There’s a “lot of anger” after reported law enforcement firing killed an unconfirmed 12 people in street protests in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city, says senior journalist Philip Obaji Jr., adding “this is not the end though the demonstrators’ momentum” has fallen after curfew and restrictions were imposed. Speaking from Abuja to StratNews Global […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Oil and politics can make for a deadly cocktail as Guyana, a small country on the Atlantic coast of South America, has discovered. More than a month after elections were held, the country remains embroiled in a bitter dispute over the results, with the West threatening sanctions after the Georgetown district election office declared […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As Kenya steps up its battle against the coronavirus pandemic with bans on all road, rail and air travel in and out of the capital, Nairobi, and three coastal regions, the United Nations is working closely with the Kenyan government to offer communication support to ensure no panic and that a positive narrative […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Some say (or hope) that the Ebola virus outbreaks in Africa not so long ago will ensure that the continent copes better with the Coronavirus. But that view is not widely shared. WHO Director General Tedros Ghebreyesus warned African heads of state on Sunday of “an imminent surge” in Coronavirus cases, urging them to […]Read More
NEW DELHI: You have two choices. Stay 1.5 metres apart or 1.5 metres underground. That is South Africa’s no-nonsense health minister Zweli Mkhize’s repeated warnings after the first China-virus cases were reported a month ago. Since then urgent and swift moves by President Cyril Ramaphosa’s government in imposing tough restrictive steps and galvanising crucial support […]Read More
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